April 24, 2024 • 30 mins
KFI's Blake Troli talks about LA County DA George Gascon's press conference today where he announced charges for the suspect in the shooting of a LA County Sheriff’s Deputy and the Studio City Metro Stabbing. National Inquirer admits that Photo of Ted Cruz's father with Lee Harvey Oswald Marco Rubio cocaine story are fake.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
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a talkback feature on the iHeart Radio app. There's been
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a couple of really terrible crimes committed this week. One
of them involved the sheriff's deputy shot in the back
while he's sitting on his motorcycle at a traffic light
in West Covina. Fortunately he had a bulletproof vest on,
so the injuries weren't that serious. The other one was
very tragic. A woman stabbed to death, stabbed in the
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neck and throat while coming home from working overnight at
Tommy's Burger Shop in North Hills and she gets off
the She gets off the train and get stabbed by
this crazy psycho who has committed crimes against other passengers
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on the metro train previously. But you know, nobody really
does anything about it. And we're gonna We're gonna talk
to Blake Trolley George gascon held a press conference earlier
this afternoon to discuss both cases, the deputy getting shot
in West Covina and this poor woman getting stabbed to
death at Studio City at the train station coming off
the train. Blake, how are you hey?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I'm good, John, Yeah, which of these cases do you
want to begin with here?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Well, let's start with the with the West Covina with
the cop, because I think we're gonna end up going
doing more on the on the poor woman. But what
did he say about the guy who shot the cop
in West Covina, the sheriff's deputy.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
So Gascon came out and actually started his press conference
with the charges against Raymundo Durant. He's been charged with
attempted murder of a peace officer, assault with a deadly
weapon on a peace office, as well as being a
felon in possession of a gun. Now, there have been
multiple reports John about Durand's background, and so Gascone he
went to questions actually before he went into the train case.
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So it was kind of like he set up the
details of this case. He did lay out some new
details about this before I should actually go into that
a little bit. We're starting to get a little bit
of a better picture of what happened. It sounds like
prosecutors are alleging Duran rolled up next to the deputy
who was sitting at that red light, as you'll remember
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in West Covina, rolled his window down and shot him.
Now it sounds like the bullet and remember, no matter
even though he was hit in a bulletproof vest, no
matter where you're hit with a bulletproof vest is extremely painful.
I had an La County Sheriff's deputy earlier this week
tell me it feels like getting bean with a ninety
mile per hour fastball. That was about the best he
could describe the feeling. And it hit this deputy in
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a pretty critical spot, we're told today Gascone told report
today that it had hit a It had hit the
deputy where his neck in shoulder meat. So you could
only imagine what that kind of force hitting that part
of your body would would even be like. And one
thing I do also want to touch on. I don't
know if we talked about this yesterday while he has
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been released from the hospital. One of the things that
Sheriff Luna alluded to was that this deputy could be
dealing with you know, mental and emotional trauma from this
for a long time. But anyways, I've seen certain reports
detailing this guy's criminal history. One of the most clearly
laid out showed that this guy was convicted of manslaughter
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in two thousand and one, fell in the evading in
twenty twenty one, and I believe that that car chase
was actually caught on TV, at least the tail end
of it was on Fox eleven. A conviction for being
a felon in possession of a gun in twenty twenty two,
and a DUI arrest last October. So Gascoon goes straight
to questions, and I immediately wonder, just what is this
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dude doing out on the streets? Take a listen to this,
and I want to go through the whole thing, because
another reporter follows up right away and tries to get
more details on these sentencings.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Yes, sir, so we've heard some concerning reports about the
background of both of the We'll start.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
With this case with the denity being shot. That this
man had an extensive criminal record. Why was he still
out on the.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Streets given that record, especially some of the violence that
was included in that record.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Okay, I cannot get into the details because we do
not want to compromise the prosecution. But men did time
in prison for an event that occur in twenty nineteen.
He did time in prison for an event that occur
in twenty twenty two, and he also had prior charges.
He's being in charge accordingly, he has one strike prior,
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so that's being an included in the consideration. But we
must understand this is still an ongoing investigation and we
want to protect the integrity of the investigation.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Yes, he guy complete both state prisons or answer he
sends fourth for those previous question.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
But he was he released three paldition.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Possibly I don't have the answered because I don't know
exactly how much time he did. But in twenty twenty
two he was sentenced to thirty two months in prison.
Clearly thirty two months having passedway, I don't think, but
I yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
So there you have it.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
It sounds like he's not he wasn't even completing the
sentences he has, and that's something that we've heard.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
You know, first of all, Gascon didn't even really know
all right, and he should come to the podium and
he should be able to go through line by line
the guy's entire record, because it matters. He's a lifetime
violent offender. Secondly, he tries to dodge the answer by saying, oh,
woll you we don't want to compromise the investigation. The
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old cases are closed. The old cases he's already been
convicted and sentenced and served time for, so that again
is public record. That doesn't compromise the twenty twenty four case.
To tell us what happened in twenty nineteen or twenty
twenty what.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
And what do you hear?
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Well, no, yeah, no, I was thinking that too. I
was like, how would this actually compromise the case?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
What is the court?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I mean, I'm no attorney, but I'm thinking, even as
a common man, I'm thinking, does this actually?
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Would this actually compromise these new charges?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
No, this is he's just reading history, but he didn't
really know all the history, and he can't even And
then when he says, oh, felony evading in twenty twenty one,
what was the sentence for that? What was the a
prior event that occurred in twenty nineteen? What was that?
Felony in possession of gun in twenty twenty two? Yeah,
thirty two months that would be that would be two
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years and eight months, and that should take you into
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Yeah, a couple of.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Things here, John, I mean, let's look at what led
before he was a felon in possession of a gun.
What led him to become a felon in the firstase, Well, apparently,
according to reports, that was stabbing a coworker in two
thousand and one. He was sentenced or he was convicted
of manslaughter for that case, and again felony evading in
twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Anyway, he killed somebody in two thousand and one.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yeah, manslaughter conviction for stabbing a coworker to death in
two thousand and one.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
That's what's been reported.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
And that was a great background reporting by Bill Malujin
at Fox News, who really dug through this guy's through
this guy's record. And then, according to this same report,
and I know Fox eleven had caught this this chase
on video, he got felony evading. He was convicted of
felony evading in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
So that's his criminal record before.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Just keep in mind before he's a felon in illegally
possessing a gun in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
And then he follows up with the duy in twenty
twenty three.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Yeah, that was late twenty twenty three, that was in October.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
And in twenty twenty four he's doing target practice a
sheriff's deputy.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Well, let's not forget.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
He also gets pulled over for another DUI apparently down
in San Diego County in Santa No frek.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
How many crimes? How many felonies does he get to commit?
He nearly killed a sheriff's deputy, And what's Gascone's responsibility
with the crime in twenty twenty one and twenty twenty two?
That's two felonies. I see, I was writing this down
as he was talking. So Gascone was in charge for
those for the period where those two felonies were committed.
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Just anything goes now.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I mean, look, I'm not a prosecutor, but what I
could say is I have serious questions when I see
a manslaughter conviction for stabbing a coworker to death, and
then somehow you end up with a in a police
chase in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Why wasn't that murder? And what else happened that that
the police never caught? I don't think he went quiet
for eighteen years. He must have been committing all kinds
of other violent acts because that's how he's wired.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
It's hard to imagine.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Right, yeah, what did he open up a gardening store
in between?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
You may have?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
All right, let's move on. We got to take a break.
Do you got some more time?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, let's do the train next.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Okay, Well to the train next. And this woman who
got stabbed to death while coming home from work at
five in the morning at Studio City on a metro
train didn't have any armed police there either, not even
an ambassador.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Part two of Blake Trolley. George Gascon held a press
conference two cases. One regarding the sheriff's deputy who was
shot in the back in West Covina while on a motorcycle.
Second one here and by the way, that is outrageous.
We'll be talking more about that in the days to come.
Second is the woman who comes off a metro train
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in Studio City at five in the morning and this
violent lunatic stabs her to death multiple times in the throat,
in the net and it turns out he's got a
long criminal record as well with violence. Let's go to
Blake to tell us what guess Cohen had to say
about this one.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Yeah, so this time we're talking about forty five year
old Elliott Noden. He's been charged and these charges were
just announced in that same press conference.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
John.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
He's been charged with murder robbery of a transit passenger.
He's been hit with the special circumstances of murder being
carried out for a robbery, and that he went after
a vulnerable victim. Now, you were mentioning his background, so
let's do a little bit of recap and keep in
mind that his background directly pertains to the transit system.
In twenty nineteen, he was charged with attacking a passenger
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in La spent five days in jail. He was ordered
to stay away from trains for three years as part.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Of his probation.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
A few weeks after that, he was charged with assault
with a deadly weapon in battery. He was sentenced to
four years in prison. The La Times reported that he
paroled to a state hospital in March of twenty twenty two.
He was released on parole supervis in August of twenty
twenty two and discharged in March of last year. Now,
we did see a report NBC reported that their law
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enforcement sources said that Noden was arrested for assaulting a
passenger on a metro line earlier this year, and that
that case had yet to be filed. So I had
asked the DA why that case had not been filed,
and here was his response to.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
That, There's no case that has been presented to my office.
I'm not sure that it was presented to the city attorney.
Appears to be a missing inner case, but we have
not found any evidence that it was presented to the
city attorney. It's not a case that was presented to
my office.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
So he's saying that the case has not been presented
to his office and that it was maybe presented to
the city attorney. That's something that we're going to have
to work to find out, because you know, he was
ordered a few years ago to stay off trains. That
was part of his probation.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
That's unforble. There's no way to enforce that. He's not
going to stay off trains. He's not going to care.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Yeah, you think that case comes up though, somebody who's
got a prior history of being ordered to stay off
of trades. You know, has an assault charge on him.
You think that the either the city attorney or the
DA's office woul take that pretty seriously.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Now.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
I was told by somebody today, a source told me
that that case was really, really minor. It sounds like
maybe it was just some sort of push or shove.
But nonetheless, given his history, you think they might dig
into that, you know, a little bit more. But yeah,
he's been charged today. He is facing life in prison.
One of the new details that we found about this
case is that the woman when she was attacked. We
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heard yesterday that she was attacked and it was also
that this man could steal her purse. But what we're
also told today is that she was actually sitting down
when she was attacked. So when they say completely unprovoked,
and keep in mind this was all caught on camera,
she was sitting down, it almost sounds like some sort
of ambush attack to get her past.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
That's what psychotics do. This guy's forty five years old.
He's clearly insane and you should have been locked up.
If they took him to the state hospital, what did
they take him to the state hospital? For back in
twenty twenty two, and why did he let him out?
This is the stuff the public should know. We're paying
for all this. Why can't we know what was the
diagnosis and who decided he was secured based on what
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clearly wasn't But none of this stuff ever gets reported
anywhere after the incident.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Well, we've heard law enforcement in the past talk about
the fact that we really just don't have any state
hospital capacity. And for what I've been told, actually, John,
is that when you start looking at county jails, when
people are sentenced to county jails, that that gets even
more concerning when you hear about capacity and people being
sentenced and let out early. In fact, I was told
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by a one former prosecutor that it's hard sometimes for
prosecutors to get diversion now because people know they're going
to spend more time in the state hospital or whatever
sort of probationary program they're sent to than actually going
to county jail.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Well, we spend over three hundred billion dollars a year
just on this. I'm sure they could build a psych
hospital out of that.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
One thing I asked gas going to touch on today
is I said, look, you've kind of got a bird's
eye view on this. I mean, we talk about John,
how many cases don't go reported. I wonder how many
assaults things of that nature on the Metro system don't
even make the news. So I had asked the DA
today what he thinks of Metro's, you know, the status
of the public safety on Metro, given that he gets
a bird's eye view of all these cases.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
And here's his response to that.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
The majority of those cases in the City of La
or misdemeanors I go to the city attorney, so we
don't have visibility to those cases. But I think it's
important to understand that in twenty twenty three, according to Metro,
there are seven million people writing or seven million rights
every week. So this is a this is a very
large transassystem with millions of people going through it every week,
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and the number of cases that they may involve misdemeanor cases.
You know, we generally will not have visibility, especially in
the City of La Lombies and other cities. They have
their own city attorney on the felony side. When they
come to us, we have a very high filing rate,
but it's very hard for us to quantify Metro because
sometimes those cases are not necessarily identify as a Metro crime.
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They're identifying as a crime that could be somewhere adjacent.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
To So then you wonder how many cases there are
that have come up near a Metro station, And I'm
sure if you've ever spent any time near one of those,
they're not the most welcoming places now.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
And are they Metro officials speaking out about this? I mean,
how many of their customers get stabbed to death before
they start talking and explaining why this is going on?
Why don't why don't they have a much stronger police presence,
and why don't they ditch this childish ambassador idea?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
You know, Mary Bass was actually asked about this, Well, she's.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
The chair, isn't she the chairwoman of the Metro?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Or is the chest She's chair of the Metro board.
She actually referenced that in this answer. She So, the
day that that woman was tragically murdered, she was rolling
out her budget. So she had that budget press conference
and I was actually up at the train station, so
I was handling this. But reporters that were at that
press conference asked the mayor to weigh in, and here's
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what she had to.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
Say, goodness, it's just you know, what can I say
other than that is just a horrific tragedy. And I
don't have a lot of the details about it except
I know that she was attacked and I know that
she later passed away. And so, serving as the chair
of MTA, you know, we have really done everything we
can to strengthen safety, so you haven't the system. And
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actually prior to it was this incident, and then there
was another one too a couple of weeks ago, where
crime had been down significantly, especially violent crime, and that
our ridership is up so much.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Let's go to cheerleader mode, right.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
The largest ridership in the country.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Let's start to hear that.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
And I do plan to learn far more about the
details so that.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
They understand happened. You let us know.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
My message to the community is Metro is safe, much
safer than it was a few months ago. And again
we are going to look into the details of what
happened in these last two incidents.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Okay, all right, Blake, I could talk to you all day.
I gotta go, all right, jan I'm going to have
more on this woman who got killed. Her name was
Myrna Sosa and you'll see the background and Karen Bass.
Things are getting safer all the time. Huh.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Conway's coming up at four o'clock. I want to follow
up on Blake Trolley's report gascon Boy is Yes, something else.
Gascone did a news conference on two of the big
crimes of the week. The sheriff's deputy that got shot
at in the back. Bullet hit his bullet proof vest,
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but still it was quite a shock to the system.
They've found that guy. He's been arrested and charged, and
so has the guy who killed the woman in Studio
City coming off that train Metro train. Metro runs just
an absolute reprehensible business there. It's just awful how they
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don't care about their passengers remaining alive, and also they
don't care about their passengers traveling calmly, safely, relaxed. You know,
they've done nothing about getting all the crazy people and
the psychos off the trains. You know, when you interview,
as Blake did yesterday, just random people coming off the train,
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you hear the stories of what's going on there, and
I really resent Karen Basking. Oh, it's getting safer every day,
you know, things are getting better. Yeah, she would have
said that, have said that on Sunday before this woman
got stabbed in the throat, stabbed to death. Want to
hear her story? Myrna sowsays her name was her name,
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and most nights for three years, she was a security
guard at the original Tommy's Hamburger stand in North Hills.
She'd start work at seven pm and work until three
or four am, and then she'd wait at Tommy's. She
wouldn't go home right away because she didn't want to
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go on the train while it was dark, so she
would hang around for a couple of hours until the
sun started to rise, and then take a bus or
a train home and she'd go home and go to
bed and sleep until she had to get up and
do it all over again. But some nights she was
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too tired and she'd leave early, and that's what she
did Monday morning. She came from Nicaragua. She had a
small house in Monagua, where two of her three children live,
and it was being constructed and she's hoping that the
construction would end within the year and she could move
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back home. She's got two grandchildren in Managua, ages thirteen
and ten. So she left her family to come here
and make money. And she's working security at a Hamburger
stand in North Hills and then risking her life every
morning in Karen Bass's city to get on the safe train,
on the safe Metro train that takes her to the
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safe Metro station. Oops, looks like one of the bad
guys that Gascone never put away jumps out with a
knife and stabs her to death. Whoops, whoops, says George Gascon. Whoop,
says Karen Bass. But otherwise everything's safe. Now Bass is
the chair of the Metro board. They could mandate lots
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of police officers to scare away these bad guys. Gascone
could make sure this character is put away for good.
His name is Elliot Noden. And again Elliot Noden already
killed somebody in two thousand and one, stabbed somebody. They
called it manslaughter. In twenty nineteen he had unspecified event.
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Gascone wasn't sure what it was. Twenty twenty one, he
was Your Entertainment on television. He was evading police. That
was another felony. Then twenty twenty two, attacked another passenger,
a felon in possession of a gun in twenty twenty two,
I should say twenty twenty three at Dui. In twenty
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nineteen he attacked eight passenger. He was arrested several times
recently this year twenty twenty four assault at the same
Red Line station. So he's got I don't know. I
stopped counting. How many times has he been arrested? How
many times? Convicted Gascone still had him out in the streets.
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Karen Bass is insisting metroline is safe. Metro line is safe.
Look at this one guy, all the damage he's done
to the passengers. So she going back to the victim,
Myrna Sosa. She wants to go back to Managua, Nicaragua,
where she's got a house, go back and see her
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kids and grandkids. But then this guy jumps, jumps her,
slashes her face, stabs her in the throat. She stumbles
onto the platform at the Universal City station and they
took her to seat her sign. A half an hour later,
she was dead and they arrested Elliot Noden. The funniest
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line I'm putting that in quotes is the el segunder times.
Noden had pleaded no contest in twenty nineteen to attacking
a metro passenger. Right a judge ordered him to stay
away from metro trains for three years. Who is the judge?
Why would you do that? You'd issue a restraining order
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that he can't board the train and it's only three years.
So after three years, he's not insane anymore. Now, between
the time he was arrested for attacking a metro passenger,
he ended up getting arrested a number of times, so
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he was still insane, and he was insane this week
when he kills Mina Susa. The time said she was
living a lonely life in Los Angeles. She moved here
to make money as best she could. Sixty six years old.
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She had gone to college in Nicaragua, studied at colleging.
She didn't have that many friends here, so it was
it was a tough, lonely life. Didn't speak English well
and just yeah, she's sixty six. There aren't that many
jobs that she was qualified for and goes home a
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little early because she was tired. Otherwise she would have
waited till the sun rose. Maybe if she waited, you know,
she wouldn't have run across the sky. But Karen Bass
runs an unsafe rail line and George Gascone runs an
unsafe county. But you people keep electing progressives like Gascone
and Bass, and then you have your thoughts and prayers
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ready when this poor lady Mirror Sosa gets stabbed to
death in the neck, gets her throat cut, because you know,
those thoughts and prayers work really well. After you've elected
a prosecutor who doesn't prosecute and a mayor who can't
simply budget for enough police to keep the metro line safe.
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They choose this gascon chooses not to prosecute and carry pass,
chooses not to spend the money. They've got plenty of money.
They have record amounts of money. You know what goes
for a lot of garbage, goes billions of dollars goes
for homeless programs. They fail all right before coming.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Up, you're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
You remember when when during the twenty sixteen presidential race.
I remember Ken and I reading this on the air,
and the Nasal Inquirer came out claiming that Ted Cruz's father,
Rafael Cruz, was an associate of Lee Harvey Oswald in
nineteen sixty three, and there was a photo allegedly of
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Rafael Cruz with Oswald handing out Fedel castro pamphlets. This
was shortly before Oswald assassinated President Kennedy, and after that
photo came out, Trump started campaigning on it because he
was still locked in a primary battle with Cruz. Trump
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what on Fox had said, I mean, what was he doing,
what was he doing with Lee Harvey Oswald before the death,
before the shooting. It's horrible. Well, now, the publisher of
the National Inquirer, or former publisher, David Pecker, is on
the stand this week in the Hushmunny trial, and he
admitted that they made up that story, just a total fabrication.
(26:50):
Under questioning from the pop prosecutor Joshua Stenglass, Pecker said,
the editor in chief at the time, Dylan Howard, and
their research department, and they faked the photo. What they
did is they mashed up the photos and pasted it together,
and they created a story that Ted Cruz's dad was
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hung out with Lee Harvey Oswald and they were handing
out castro pamphlets and kind of a kind of an
insinuation that maybe he Cruz's father had something to do
with Kennedy's assassination. When they said, what would happen is
Michael Cohen, Trump's attorney would call and suggest which candidates
the National Inquirer should go after they would send him
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a piece about Cruise. Then the Inquirer would embellish it.
They also pushed in twenty sixteen the idea that Marco
Rubio was also running for president. The Florida senator had
a love child and some connection to cocaine. The same thing.
They had something weird, some weird story about Ben Carson
as well.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
Crew says he doesn't want to talk about it. Uh, Conway,
I'm sorry, I just walked in it. You're talking about
Bill Handle? Yeah, what part got you in? The connection
to Cruise? Right? Alex Stone is coming on today. The
Department of Transportation is rolling out new rules today that
are going to require airlines to automatically give cash refunds
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to passengers for canceled and significantly delayed flights.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Good.
Speaker 7 (28:26):
I don't know why it's them on. I guess I
read the whole story.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
That's the story. That's all you need to know.
Speaker 7 (28:30):
That's it, all right, cancel that, guy William And also
we got a big charity event going on. But the
big story is these campuses where these protests are going on. Man, man,
it's getting out of control. I watch them all day.
I'm on YouTube watching live cameras Berkeley, Columbia, and it
has the sense of and I was too young to
(28:50):
remember this, but Kent University, Kent State. I just think
of the Saints. How close are we to a shooting
like that? All takes is one yeah, you know, one
yeah to go onto a campus, or one nut in
the crowd, right, and it's over. And then it's you know,
then there's a one hundred kids dead. This is gonna
be nineteen sixty eight all over again. It's gonna be crazy,
absolutely crazy. And it's Bellyo's birthday, So Sharon, belly O,
(29:14):
happy birthday to share all right? What Oh tomorrow? Oh Christ?
That means I got to bring something in and the
gift and bring it tomorrow, bring your cupcakes. Oh tomorrow.
I thought it was today. I could have got by,
Oh it's today, happy birthday, But now it's tomorrow. I
gotta bring a cake and gifts, right, oh man, that's
why somebody told me it was today.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
So they're a cheese steak. I think we have left.
Speaker 7 (29:36):
Oh yeah, where's that from? Philly's Best?
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Philly's Best.
Speaker 7 (29:39):
Oh they're the best.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
They are the best.
Speaker 7 (29:40):
Yeah, and you know you're from back east.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
You know this.
Speaker 7 (29:43):
The bread makes the sandwich in a Philly's cheese dack.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Yeah. And this is the only place since I came
out here that's uh in league with the East Coast?
Is that right? Che steaks?
Speaker 7 (29:52):
Yeah, oh that's great. I go to the one in
Burbank all the time.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Yeah, me too.
Speaker 7 (29:55):
Yeah, it's just it's terrific, man. And I don't care
what the price is.
Speaker 5 (29:59):
You know.
Speaker 7 (29:59):
Somebody said, I'll the price went up. If it's one
hundred dollars, I'm in. I don't care when you get
a great sandwich like that.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Yeah there, what are you.
Speaker 7 (30:06):
Gonna save a dollar and get into Gestion somewhere else?
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Is the bad ones? You're the same price, So that's right, Yeah,
get a good one.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Exactly.
Speaker 7 (30:12):
They are they are.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
They're terrific, all right. Conway's next big talk with you
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a talkback feature on the iHeart Radio app. There's been
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a couple of really terrible crimes committed this week. One
of them involved the sheriff's deputy shot in the back
while he's sitting on his motorcycle at a traffic light
in West Covina. Fortunately he had a bulletproof vest on,
so the injuries weren't that serious. The other one was
very tragic. A woman stabbed to death, stabbed in the
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neck and throat while coming home from working overnight at
Tommy's Burger Shop in North Hills and she gets off
the She gets off the train and get stabbed by
this crazy psycho who has committed crimes against other passengers
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on the metro train previously. But you know, nobody really
does anything about it. And we're gonna We're gonna talk
to Blake Trolley George gascon held a press conference earlier
this afternoon to discuss both cases, the deputy getting shot
in West Covina and this poor woman getting stabbed to
death at Studio City at the train station coming off
the train. Blake, how are you hey?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I'm good, John, Yeah, which of these cases do you
want to begin with here?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Well, let's start with the with the West Covina with
the cop, because I think we're gonna end up going
doing more on the on the poor woman. But what
did he say about the guy who shot the cop
in West Covina, the sheriff's deputy.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
So Gascon came out and actually started his press conference
with the charges against Raymundo Durant. He's been charged with
attempted murder of a peace officer, assault with a deadly
weapon on a peace office, as well as being a
felon in possession of a gun. Now, there have been
multiple reports John about Durand's background, and so Gascone he
went to questions actually before he went into the train case.
(02:12):
So it was kind of like he set up the
details of this case. He did lay out some new
details about this before I should actually go into that
a little bit. We're starting to get a little bit
of a better picture of what happened. It sounds like
prosecutors are alleging Duran rolled up next to the deputy
who was sitting at that red light, as you'll remember
(02:33):
in West Covina, rolled his window down and shot him.
Now it sounds like the bullet and remember, no matter
even though he was hit in a bulletproof vest, no
matter where you're hit with a bulletproof vest is extremely painful.
I had an La County Sheriff's deputy earlier this week
tell me it feels like getting bean with a ninety
mile per hour fastball. That was about the best he
could describe the feeling. And it hit this deputy in
(02:56):
a pretty critical spot, we're told today Gascone told report
today that it had hit a It had hit the
deputy where his neck in shoulder meat. So you could
only imagine what that kind of force hitting that part
of your body would would even be like. And one
thing I do also want to touch on. I don't
know if we talked about this yesterday while he has
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been released from the hospital. One of the things that
Sheriff Luna alluded to was that this deputy could be
dealing with you know, mental and emotional trauma from this
for a long time. But anyways, I've seen certain reports
detailing this guy's criminal history. One of the most clearly
laid out showed that this guy was convicted of manslaughter
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in two thousand and one, fell in the evading in
twenty twenty one, and I believe that that car chase
was actually caught on TV, at least the tail end
of it was on Fox eleven. A conviction for being
a felon in possession of a gun in twenty twenty two,
and a DUI arrest last October. So Gascoon goes straight
to questions, and I immediately wonder, just what is this
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dude doing out on the streets? Take a listen to this,
and I want to go through the whole thing, because
another reporter follows up right away and tries to get
more details on these sentencings.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Yes, sir, so we've heard some concerning reports about the
background of both of the We'll start.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
With this case with the denity being shot. That this
man had an extensive criminal record. Why was he still
out on the.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Streets given that record, especially some of the violence that
was included in that record.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Okay, I cannot get into the details because we do
not want to compromise the prosecution. But men did time
in prison for an event that occur in twenty nineteen.
He did time in prison for an event that occur
in twenty twenty two, and he also had prior charges.
He's being in charge accordingly, he has one strike prior,
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so that's being an included in the consideration. But we
must understand this is still an ongoing investigation and we
want to protect the integrity of the investigation.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Yes, he guy complete both state prisons or answer he
sends fourth for those previous question.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
But he was he released three paldition.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Possibly I don't have the answered because I don't know
exactly how much time he did. But in twenty twenty
two he was sentenced to thirty two months in prison.
Clearly thirty two months having passedway, I don't think, but
I yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
So there you have it.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
It sounds like he's not he wasn't even completing the
sentences he has, and that's something that we've heard.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
You know, first of all, Gascon didn't even really know
all right, and he should come to the podium and
he should be able to go through line by line
the guy's entire record, because it matters. He's a lifetime
violent offender. Secondly, he tries to dodge the answer by saying, oh,
woll you we don't want to compromise the investigation. The
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old cases are closed. The old cases he's already been
convicted and sentenced and served time for, so that again
is public record. That doesn't compromise the twenty twenty four case.
To tell us what happened in twenty nineteen or twenty
twenty what.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
And what do you hear?
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Well, no, yeah, no, I was thinking that too. I
was like, how would this actually compromise the case?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
What is the court?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I mean, I'm no attorney, but I'm thinking, even as
a common man, I'm thinking, does this actually?
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Would this actually compromise these new charges?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
No, this is he's just reading history, but he didn't
really know all the history, and he can't even And
then when he says, oh, felony evading in twenty twenty one,
what was the sentence for that? What was the a
prior event that occurred in twenty nineteen? What was that?
Felony in possession of gun in twenty twenty two? Yeah,
thirty two months that would be that would be two
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years and eight months, and that should take you into
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Yeah, a couple of.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Things here, John, I mean, let's look at what led
before he was a felon in possession of a gun.
What led him to become a felon in the firstase, Well, apparently,
according to reports, that was stabbing a coworker in two
thousand and one. He was sentenced or he was convicted
of manslaughter for that case, and again felony evading in
twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Anyway, he killed somebody in two thousand and one.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yeah, manslaughter conviction for stabbing a coworker to death in
two thousand and one.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
That's what's been reported.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
And that was a great background reporting by Bill Malujin
at Fox News, who really dug through this guy's through
this guy's record. And then, according to this same report,
and I know Fox eleven had caught this this chase
on video, he got felony evading. He was convicted of
felony evading in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
So that's his criminal record before.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Just keep in mind before he's a felon in illegally
possessing a gun in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
And then he follows up with the duy in twenty
twenty three.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Yeah, that was late twenty twenty three, that was in October.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
And in twenty twenty four he's doing target practice a
sheriff's deputy.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Well, let's not forget.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
He also gets pulled over for another DUI apparently down
in San Diego County in Santa No frek.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
How many crimes? How many felonies does he get to commit?
He nearly killed a sheriff's deputy, And what's Gascone's responsibility
with the crime in twenty twenty one and twenty twenty two?
That's two felonies. I see, I was writing this down
as he was talking. So Gascone was in charge for
those for the period where those two felonies were committed.
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Just anything goes now.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I mean, look, I'm not a prosecutor, but what I
could say is I have serious questions when I see
a manslaughter conviction for stabbing a coworker to death, and
then somehow you end up with a in a police
chase in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Why wasn't that murder? And what else happened that that
the police never caught? I don't think he went quiet
for eighteen years. He must have been committing all kinds
of other violent acts because that's how he's wired.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
It's hard to imagine.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Right, yeah, what did he open up a gardening store
in between?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
You may have?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
All right, let's move on. We got to take a break.
Do you got some more time?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, let's do the train next.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Okay, Well to the train next. And this woman who
got stabbed to death while coming home from work at
five in the morning at Studio City on a metro
train didn't have any armed police there either, not even
an ambassador.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Part two of Blake Trolley. George Gascon held a press
conference two cases. One regarding the sheriff's deputy who was
shot in the back in West Covina while on a motorcycle.
Second one here and by the way, that is outrageous.
We'll be talking more about that in the days to come.
Second is the woman who comes off a metro train
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in Studio City at five in the morning and this
violent lunatic stabs her to death multiple times in the throat,
in the net and it turns out he's got a
long criminal record as well with violence. Let's go to
Blake to tell us what guess Cohen had to say
about this one.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Yeah, so this time we're talking about forty five year
old Elliott Noden. He's been charged and these charges were
just announced in that same press conference.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
John.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
He's been charged with murder robbery of a transit passenger.
He's been hit with the special circumstances of murder being
carried out for a robbery, and that he went after
a vulnerable victim. Now, you were mentioning his background, so
let's do a little bit of recap and keep in
mind that his background directly pertains to the transit system.
In twenty nineteen, he was charged with attacking a passenger
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in La spent five days in jail. He was ordered
to stay away from trains for three years as part.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Of his probation.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
A few weeks after that, he was charged with assault
with a deadly weapon in battery. He was sentenced to
four years in prison. The La Times reported that he
paroled to a state hospital in March of twenty twenty two.
He was released on parole supervis in August of twenty
twenty two and discharged in March of last year. Now,
we did see a report NBC reported that their law
(11:08):
enforcement sources said that Noden was arrested for assaulting a
passenger on a metro line earlier this year, and that
that case had yet to be filed. So I had
asked the DA why that case had not been filed,
and here was his response to.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
That, There's no case that has been presented to my office.
I'm not sure that it was presented to the city attorney.
Appears to be a missing inner case, but we have
not found any evidence that it was presented to the
city attorney. It's not a case that was presented to
my office.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
So he's saying that the case has not been presented
to his office and that it was maybe presented to
the city attorney. That's something that we're going to have
to work to find out, because you know, he was
ordered a few years ago to stay off trains. That
was part of his probation.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
That's unforble. There's no way to enforce that. He's not
going to stay off trains. He's not going to care.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Yeah, you think that case comes up though, somebody who's
got a prior history of being ordered to stay off
of trades. You know, has an assault charge on him.
You think that the either the city attorney or the
DA's office woul take that pretty seriously.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Now.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
I was told by somebody today, a source told me
that that case was really, really minor. It sounds like
maybe it was just some sort of push or shove.
But nonetheless, given his history, you think they might dig
into that, you know, a little bit more. But yeah,
he's been charged today. He is facing life in prison.
One of the new details that we found about this
case is that the woman when she was attacked. We
(12:33):
heard yesterday that she was attacked and it was also
that this man could steal her purse. But what we're
also told today is that she was actually sitting down
when she was attacked. So when they say completely unprovoked,
and keep in mind this was all caught on camera,
she was sitting down, it almost sounds like some sort
of ambush attack to get her past.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
That's what psychotics do. This guy's forty five years old.
He's clearly insane and you should have been locked up.
If they took him to the state hospital, what did
they take him to the state hospital? For back in
twenty twenty two, and why did he let him out?
This is the stuff the public should know. We're paying
for all this. Why can't we know what was the
diagnosis and who decided he was secured based on what
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clearly wasn't But none of this stuff ever gets reported
anywhere after the incident.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Well, we've heard law enforcement in the past talk about
the fact that we really just don't have any state
hospital capacity. And for what I've been told, actually, John,
is that when you start looking at county jails, when
people are sentenced to county jails, that that gets even
more concerning when you hear about capacity and people being
sentenced and let out early. In fact, I was told
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by a one former prosecutor that it's hard sometimes for
prosecutors to get diversion now because people know they're going
to spend more time in the state hospital or whatever
sort of probationary program they're sent to than actually going
to county jail.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Well, we spend over three hundred billion dollars a year
just on this. I'm sure they could build a psych
hospital out of that.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
One thing I asked gas going to touch on today
is I said, look, you've kind of got a bird's
eye view on this. I mean, we talk about John,
how many cases don't go reported. I wonder how many
assaults things of that nature on the Metro system don't
even make the news. So I had asked the DA
today what he thinks of Metro's, you know, the status
of the public safety on Metro, given that he gets
a bird's eye view of all these cases.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
And here's his response to that.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
The majority of those cases in the City of La
or misdemeanors I go to the city attorney, so we
don't have visibility to those cases. But I think it's
important to understand that in twenty twenty three, according to Metro,
there are seven million people writing or seven million rights
every week. So this is a this is a very
large transassystem with millions of people going through it every week,
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and the number of cases that they may involve misdemeanor cases.
You know, we generally will not have visibility, especially in
the City of La Lombies and other cities. They have
their own city attorney on the felony side. When they
come to us, we have a very high filing rate,
but it's very hard for us to quantify Metro because
sometimes those cases are not necessarily identify as a Metro crime.
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They're identifying as a crime that could be somewhere adjacent.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
To So then you wonder how many cases there are
that have come up near a Metro station, And I'm
sure if you've ever spent any time near one of those,
they're not the most welcoming places now.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
And are they Metro officials speaking out about this? I mean,
how many of their customers get stabbed to death before
they start talking and explaining why this is going on?
Why don't why don't they have a much stronger police presence,
and why don't they ditch this childish ambassador idea?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
You know, Mary Bass was actually asked about this, Well, she's.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
The chair, isn't she the chairwoman of the Metro?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Or is the chest She's chair of the Metro board.
She actually referenced that in this answer. She So, the
day that that woman was tragically murdered, she was rolling
out her budget. So she had that budget press conference
and I was actually up at the train station, so
I was handling this. But reporters that were at that
press conference asked the mayor to weigh in, and here's
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what she had to.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
Say, goodness, it's just you know, what can I say
other than that is just a horrific tragedy. And I
don't have a lot of the details about it except
I know that she was attacked and I know that
she later passed away. And so, serving as the chair
of MTA, you know, we have really done everything we
can to strengthen safety, so you haven't the system. And
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actually prior to it was this incident, and then there
was another one too a couple of weeks ago, where
crime had been down significantly, especially violent crime, and that
our ridership is up so much.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Let's go to cheerleader mode, right.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
The largest ridership in the country.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Let's start to hear that.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
And I do plan to learn far more about the
details so that.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
They understand happened. You let us know.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
My message to the community is Metro is safe, much
safer than it was a few months ago. And again
we are going to look into the details of what
happened in these last two incidents.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Okay, all right, Blake, I could talk to you all day.
I gotta go, all right, jan I'm going to have
more on this woman who got killed. Her name was
Myrna Sosa and you'll see the background and Karen Bass.
Things are getting safer all the time. Huh.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Conway's coming up at four o'clock. I want to follow
up on Blake Trolley's report gascon Boy is Yes, something else.
Gascone did a news conference on two of the big
crimes of the week. The sheriff's deputy that got shot
at in the back. Bullet hit his bullet proof vest,
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but still it was quite a shock to the system.
They've found that guy. He's been arrested and charged, and
so has the guy who killed the woman in Studio
City coming off that train Metro train. Metro runs just
an absolute reprehensible business there. It's just awful how they
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don't care about their passengers remaining alive, and also they
don't care about their passengers traveling calmly, safely, relaxed. You know,
they've done nothing about getting all the crazy people and
the psychos off the trains. You know, when you interview,
as Blake did yesterday, just random people coming off the train,
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you hear the stories of what's going on there, and
I really resent Karen Basking. Oh, it's getting safer every day,
you know, things are getting better. Yeah, she would have
said that, have said that on Sunday before this woman
got stabbed in the throat, stabbed to death. Want to
hear her story? Myrna sowsays her name was her name,
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and most nights for three years, she was a security
guard at the original Tommy's Hamburger stand in North Hills.
She'd start work at seven pm and work until three
or four am, and then she'd wait at Tommy's. She
wouldn't go home right away because she didn't want to
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go on the train while it was dark, so she
would hang around for a couple of hours until the
sun started to rise, and then take a bus or
a train home and she'd go home and go to
bed and sleep until she had to get up and
do it all over again. But some nights she was
(19:53):
too tired and she'd leave early, and that's what she
did Monday morning. She came from Nicaragua. She had a
small house in Monagua, where two of her three children live,
and it was being constructed and she's hoping that the
construction would end within the year and she could move
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back home. She's got two grandchildren in Managua, ages thirteen
and ten. So she left her family to come here
and make money. And she's working security at a Hamburger
stand in North Hills and then risking her life every
morning in Karen Bass's city to get on the safe train,
on the safe Metro train that takes her to the
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safe Metro station. Oops, looks like one of the bad
guys that Gascone never put away jumps out with a
knife and stabs her to death. Whoops, whoops, says George Gascon. Whoop,
says Karen Bass. But otherwise everything's safe. Now Bass is
the chair of the Metro board. They could mandate lots
(20:59):
of police officers to scare away these bad guys. Gascone
could make sure this character is put away for good.
His name is Elliot Noden. And again Elliot Noden already
killed somebody in two thousand and one, stabbed somebody. They
called it manslaughter. In twenty nineteen he had unspecified event.
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Gascone wasn't sure what it was. Twenty twenty one, he
was Your Entertainment on television. He was evading police. That
was another felony. Then twenty twenty two, attacked another passenger,
a felon in possession of a gun in twenty twenty two,
I should say twenty twenty three at Dui. In twenty
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nineteen he attacked eight passenger. He was arrested several times
recently this year twenty twenty four assault at the same
Red Line station. So he's got I don't know. I
stopped counting. How many times has he been arrested? How
many times? Convicted Gascone still had him out in the streets.
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Karen Bass is insisting metroline is safe. Metro line is safe.
Look at this one guy, all the damage he's done
to the passengers. So she going back to the victim,
Myrna Sosa. She wants to go back to Managua, Nicaragua,
where she's got a house, go back and see her
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kids and grandkids. But then this guy jumps, jumps her,
slashes her face, stabs her in the throat. She stumbles
onto the platform at the Universal City station and they
took her to seat her sign. A half an hour later,
she was dead and they arrested Elliot Noden. The funniest
(22:55):
line I'm putting that in quotes is the el segunder times.
Noden had pleaded no contest in twenty nineteen to attacking
a metro passenger. Right a judge ordered him to stay
away from metro trains for three years. Who is the judge?
Why would you do that? You'd issue a restraining order
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that he can't board the train and it's only three years.
So after three years, he's not insane anymore. Now, between
the time he was arrested for attacking a metro passenger,
he ended up getting arrested a number of times, so
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he was still insane, and he was insane this week
when he kills Mina Susa. The time said she was
living a lonely life in Los Angeles. She moved here
to make money as best she could. Sixty six years old.
(24:01):
She had gone to college in Nicaragua, studied at colleging.
She didn't have that many friends here, so it was
it was a tough, lonely life. Didn't speak English well
and just yeah, she's sixty six. There aren't that many
jobs that she was qualified for and goes home a
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little early because she was tired. Otherwise she would have
waited till the sun rose. Maybe if she waited, you know,
she wouldn't have run across the sky. But Karen Bass
runs an unsafe rail line and George Gascone runs an
unsafe county. But you people keep electing progressives like Gascone
and Bass, and then you have your thoughts and prayers
(24:47):
ready when this poor lady Mirror Sosa gets stabbed to
death in the neck, gets her throat cut, because you know,
those thoughts and prayers work really well. After you've elected
a prosecutor who doesn't prosecute and a mayor who can't
simply budget for enough police to keep the metro line safe.
(25:10):
They choose this gascon chooses not to prosecute and carry pass,
chooses not to spend the money. They've got plenty of money.
They have record amounts of money. You know what goes
for a lot of garbage, goes billions of dollars goes
for homeless programs. They fail all right before coming.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Up, you're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
You remember when when during the twenty sixteen presidential race.
I remember Ken and I reading this on the air,
and the Nasal Inquirer came out claiming that Ted Cruz's father,
Rafael Cruz, was an associate of Lee Harvey Oswald in
nineteen sixty three, and there was a photo allegedly of
(25:59):
Rafael Cruz with Oswald handing out Fedel castro pamphlets. This
was shortly before Oswald assassinated President Kennedy, and after that
photo came out, Trump started campaigning on it because he
was still locked in a primary battle with Cruz. Trump
(26:23):
what on Fox had said, I mean, what was he doing,
what was he doing with Lee Harvey Oswald before the death,
before the shooting. It's horrible. Well, now, the publisher of
the National Inquirer, or former publisher, David Pecker, is on
the stand this week in the Hushmunny trial, and he
admitted that they made up that story, just a total fabrication.
(26:50):
Under questioning from the pop prosecutor Joshua Stenglass, Pecker said,
the editor in chief at the time, Dylan Howard, and
their research department, and they faked the photo. What they
did is they mashed up the photos and pasted it together,
and they created a story that Ted Cruz's dad was
(27:17):
hung out with Lee Harvey Oswald and they were handing
out castro pamphlets and kind of a kind of an
insinuation that maybe he Cruz's father had something to do
with Kennedy's assassination. When they said, what would happen is
Michael Cohen, Trump's attorney would call and suggest which candidates
the National Inquirer should go after they would send him
(27:40):
a piece about Cruise. Then the Inquirer would embellish it.
They also pushed in twenty sixteen the idea that Marco
Rubio was also running for president. The Florida senator had
a love child and some connection to cocaine. The same thing.
They had something weird, some weird story about Ben Carson
as well.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
Crew says he doesn't want to talk about it. Uh, Conway,
I'm sorry, I just walked in it. You're talking about
Bill Handle? Yeah, what part got you in? The connection
to Cruise? Right? Alex Stone is coming on today. The
Department of Transportation is rolling out new rules today that
are going to require airlines to automatically give cash refunds
(28:22):
to passengers for canceled and significantly delayed flights.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Good.
Speaker 7 (28:26):
I don't know why it's them on. I guess I
read the whole story.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
That's the story. That's all you need to know.
Speaker 7 (28:30):
That's it, all right, cancel that, guy William And also
we got a big charity event going on. But the
big story is these campuses where these protests are going on. Man, man,
it's getting out of control. I watch them all day.
I'm on YouTube watching live cameras Berkeley, Columbia, and it
has the sense of and I was too young to
(28:50):
remember this, but Kent University, Kent State. I just think
of the Saints. How close are we to a shooting
like that? All takes is one yeah, you know, one
yeah to go onto a campus, or one nut in
the crowd, right, and it's over. And then it's you know,
then there's a one hundred kids dead. This is gonna
be nineteen sixty eight all over again. It's gonna be crazy,
absolutely crazy. And it's Bellyo's birthday, So Sharon, belly O,
(29:14):
happy birthday to share all right? What Oh tomorrow? Oh Christ?
That means I got to bring something in and the
gift and bring it tomorrow, bring your cupcakes. Oh tomorrow.
I thought it was today. I could have got by,
Oh it's today, happy birthday, But now it's tomorrow. I
gotta bring a cake and gifts, right, oh man, that's
why somebody told me it was today.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
So they're a cheese steak. I think we have left.
Speaker 7 (29:36):
Oh yeah, where's that from? Philly's Best?
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Philly's Best.
Speaker 7 (29:39):
Oh they're the best.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
They are the best.
Speaker 7 (29:40):
Yeah, and you know you're from back east.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
You know this.
Speaker 7 (29:43):
The bread makes the sandwich in a Philly's cheese dack.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Yeah. And this is the only place since I came
out here that's uh in league with the East Coast?
Is that right? Che steaks?
Speaker 7 (29:52):
Yeah, oh that's great. I go to the one in
Burbank all the time.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Yeah, me too.
Speaker 7 (29:55):
Yeah, it's just it's terrific, man. And I don't care
what the price is.
Speaker 5 (29:59):
You know.
Speaker 7 (29:59):
Somebody said, I'll the price went up. If it's one
hundred dollars, I'm in. I don't care when you get
a great sandwich like that.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Yeah there, what are you.
Speaker 7 (30:06):
Gonna save a dollar and get into Gestion somewhere else?
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Is the bad ones? You're the same price, So that's right, Yeah,
get a good one.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Exactly.
Speaker 7 (30:12):
They are they are.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
They're terrific, all right. Conway's next big talk with you
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